THE MOST VORACIOUS BLACK HOLE KNOWN IN SPACE...

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Welcome to our channel! In today’s video Smart is the New Sexy will share with you the astonishing news made by the Australian astronomers. They discovered a black hole with the most voracious appetite for everything that comes close to it. Keep watching if you want to know how many stars a day it can consume.

Astronomers at ANU have found the fastest-growing black hole known in the Universe, describing it as a monster that devours a mass equivalent to our Sun every two days. A supermassive black hole in the center of the ultra-luminous quasar J2157-3602 is located at 12 billion light-years from Earth. Right now, this massive black hole is the size of at least 20 billion Suns with a 1% growth rate every one million years.

The data received by the ESA Gaia satellite and the SkyMapper telescope helped astronomers calculate, that if this monster black hole was at the center of the Milky Way it would likely make life on Earth impossible with the huge amounts of X-rays emanating from it. It is growing so rapidly that it’s shining thousands of times more brightly than an entire galaxy, due to all of the gases it sucks in daily that cause lots of friction and heat. If we had this monster sitting at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, it would appear 10 times brighter than a full moon. In fact, scientists can see the shadows of objects in front of the supermassive black hole. Did you know that average black holes are about the size of 50 suns?

How did this monster black hole get so massive? But who knows what happened in the dark early ages of the universe?

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